22 motifs match “bamboo”  ·  back to the chapters

• Bamboo goddess. A435.1
• All the kinds of seed in a bamboo that culture hero cuts down. A1425.1
• Origin of bamboo. A2681.6
• Why the bamboo has nodes. A2756
• Transformation: butterfly to bamboo. D424.1
• Transformation: sections of bamboo to persons. D431.10
• Magic bamboo tree. D950.15
• Soul in bamboo. E711.2.6
• Life token: bamboo stalks grow with joints upside down. E761.3.1
• Crab carries in his ear cat, tiger, bamboos, river. F982.8
• The homesick wave. Numskulls try to take home a wave of the sea in a bamboo rod. At home when it refuses to wave they say that it is homesick for its mother, the sea. J1875.3
• Deceptive contest in chopping: iron in bamboo. Hero challenged to cut down bundles of bamboo suspended in air but a strip of iron is treacherously inserted in each. K44.1
• Contest with magician in bringing grain out of closed bamboo: trickster brings culm-borers to make holes. K69.1
• Sale of alleged oracular bamboo cup. K114.4
• Deceptive land purchase: fields that crackle when burnt are to be his. He puts bamboo on the fields before they are burnt so that they crackle. K185.9
• Trickster lends bamboo on condition that it is returned exactly as it is. K196.3
• Jackal in tiger's house has permission to sit with tail hanging down between bamboo stems. Enlarges gap thus made and escapes. K563.1
• Dupe wishing to learn to play flute puts tongue in split bamboo. K1111.0.1.1
• Trickster makes basket for his partner tiger to carry meat, but does not sever bamboo from roots. Tiger left behind. K2033
• Buffalo's fate in bamboo growing from head. N119.2
• By hiding, stupid son overhears conversation and claims magic power for bamboo cup. N455.10
• Man sharpening his dao is bitten by a prawn. He cuts down a big bamboo; a fruit falls from bamboo and strikes a bird on the nape of the neck; the bird scratches up an ant's nest with his feet; the ant bites a wild boar in the eye; and the boar bears down upon a plantain tree where a bat dwells under a leaf; the bat seeks refuge in the ear of an elephant, and the elephant kicks down the house on an old woman. She rushes out and falls into a well. Z49.6.3